Benson-KMS Track & Field

06/21/2025

An update to our youth track meet:

06/17/2025

The Benson-KMS track team celebrated their season’s success at their end of the season award ceremony. So many records fell this season-multiple times! Each pic is captioned with the recognition. Boys earned Silver Academic status and the Girls earned Gold Academic status. Congrats to all these athletes! Over 70 athletes 7-12 participated this year and the future of BKMS track looks bright!

06/13/2025

The Minnesota State Track meet was a good one! Congratulations to our medalists!
Ava Noble-3rd 300 M Hurdles
Boys’ 4x100 relay-7th
(Eshon Freeman, Conner Stine, Darin Hippe, Jaden McCarter)
Girls’ 4x400 relay-6th
(Carly Tolifson, Kaida Helgenset, Izzy Wirth, and Ava Noble)

You represented Benson-KMS track well and your coaches, schools, and communities are extremely proud of you! Izzy, Eshon, and Jaden-way to end your high school careers and thank you for your leadership!
📸: Tony Fath and Ann Hippe

06/11/2025

Quite the day at the Minnesota State Track Meet! The meet is not for the faint of heart and there were some heartbreaking moments.
Ava Noble will continue on to the finals in the 300 hurdles. She won her heat and goes into tomorrow with the second best time.
The boys’ 4x200 was heartbreaking when Connor Oehlberg was closing the gap at anchor and pulled his hamstring and was unable to finish the race. That made for a quick change in the 4x100 to replace him. Darin Hippe stepped in and gave it his all. They left it all on the track but came up .02 short in making finals. Hard to watch our seniors-Jaden and Eshon run that last race.(Keep reading theres a plot twist)
The girls’ 4x400 rocked the track and won their heat. They took down the school record that was held by a group that included Coach Samantha. They advance to finals!
Back to that 4x100 for the boys. Coach Carroll received a call from MSHSL and was notified that a team was disqualified. We are in finals for the 4x100!
Looking forward to podium pics for our runners that made it to finals tomorrow!
Here’s the start of our 4x100.

06/10/2025

Here is our achedule this afternoon. Field events are “finals”.

🏃‍♀️Prelims🏃‍♂️:
3:30-Carly long jump
3:30-Mamie and Carly high jump
3:30-Ava 100 hurdles
4:23-4x200 girls’ relay
4:38-4x200 boys’ relay
4:53-4x100 girls’ relay
5:05-4x100 boys’ relay
5:44-Ava 300 hurdles
7:26-4x400 girls’ relay

06/10/2025

We appreciate the positive vibes that sent us on our way to STATE! Stay tuned for updates as competition and prelims start later this afternoon!

06/09/2025

Join us at the Benson and KMS HS parking lots to send off our TWELVE Minnesota State Track & Field participants!

If you plan to cheer on the athletes in person at the State Meet, here is information on tickets and schedules: https://www.mshsl.org/sports-and-activities/track-and-field-boys

Live streaming and live results can also be found at the link above!

06/03/2025

Here is the link for BKMS state track t-shirts. TODAY (6/3/25) is the ONLY day for ordering. T-shirts will be available for pick up on Friday. Click on T-shirts to see both blue and pink option. The back will have state qualifiers names.

Welcome to the BKMS State Track & Field Apparel Web Store! ***ORDERING ENDS AT 11:59PM TUESDAY JUNE 3RD*** ***ORDERS CAN BE PICKED UP AT LEGACY PRINTWEAR ANY TIME FRIDAY JUNE 6TH***

05/30/2025

No picture of this crew-they were too fast for the camera! This 4x400 had a PR tonight and will be moving on to the Minnesota State High School Track and Field Meet!

05/30/2025

Hard work, determination and grit will take you places-like the State Meet! Hats off to Ava Noble on conquering the hurdles tonight! We are so proud of you!

05/30/2025

But wait! There’s more! The 4x200 also burned up the track today! Congratulations Darin Hippe, Jayden McCarter, Conner Oehlberg, and Eshon Freeman!

05/30/2025

It’s fun to make it to the State Track Meet, but even more fun when you get to go with friends! This 4x100 relay was ran by Izzy Wirth, Julia Claussen, Kaida Helgenset, and Carly Tolifson. Way to make us proud, ladies!